15y old Steve Winwood Nobody knows you when youre down and out

Incredible how Steve Winwood sounded at the age of Ray Charles. Nobody Knows You When You re Down and Out is a blues standard written by Jimmy Cox in 1923. It s lyric, told from the point of view of a onetime millionaire during the Prohibition era, reflects on the fleeting nature of material wealth and the friendships that come and go with it. As a vaudevillestyle blues, it was popularized by Bessie Smith, the preeminent female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s. Since her 1929 recording, i